Edinburgh is the world’s largest arts festival, and boasts more than 1,600 shows over three weeks. It is “made up of a number of fringes with dramatically different agendas, audiences, resources and performers all taking place only loosely beneath the tent that is the Fringe Festival.” But is the Fringe – “which encompasses theatre, dance, musicals, opera, fine art and comedy and revue entertainment – grown so diverse as to become impossible to define?” – The Globe and Mail (Canada) 08/24/00